chatgpt.exe right now is 1 GB on my windows machine. I have 16 GB and can spare none. So I don't think that nobody cares about such performance increases.

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astrange 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> chatgpt.exe right now is 1 GB on my windows machine. I have 16 GB and can spare none.

These are not the same units, because all modern OSes have compressed swap.

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davidmurdoch 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Most don't care or ever notice these things. Hacker News crowd does and always has, but the a non-technical user of a run-of-the-mill desktop app would rather have new features, and maybe some bug fixes, over performance.

Myself? I care. I regularly run a project that needs 6GB for the language server to provide type hints.

	▲	Telaneo 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		> but the a non-technical user of a run-of-the-mill desktop app would rather have new features, and maybe some bug fixes, over performance. Ask anyone with a 5 year or older laptop that wasn't top of the line when it came out and can't afford a new one, and I think you'll find they're of the exact opposite opinion. And even if they aren't explicitly, they might have abandoned their PC and instead switched to their phone for their personal computing, just because that experience turned out more coherently for them. Heck, even the normal user with a decent laptop probably would take better performance if given the option, but when have they ever been given that option? The current state just isn't unperformant enough that it crosses the threshold to the point where it's at the front of mind for people. If anything, that threshold is probably beyond the threshold of 'eh, I'll just use my phone for this' for any task that doesn't need a keyboard.

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senordevnyc a day ago | parent | prev [-]

But you’re running it, aren’t you? So from the business perspective, you don’t care enough for it to matter.